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Buy Music Club June 2025

BMC June 2025
Slightly late this month (been very busy) and still no new episode of the Electrik Collage show (it’s coming) – I’m enjoying having two releases and three cover designs in this month’s list. The Locked Loop Group lathe cut zoetrope is on its second pressing now and will be cut dependent on orders received by a cut off date. Big news for this month is the final announcement of a project I’ve been working on with Doug Shipton at Fundamental Frequencies for a year now – Telepathic Fish: Trawling the Early 90s Ambient Underground.

This double album compiles tracks I and my friends were playing at the ambient parties we held under this name between 1992-1995 in London and beyond alongside Mixmaster Morris and Matt Black and a 20 pg booklet included with the package details the whole adventure. I also collaborated with artist Al White on the Terrace album cover for De:tuned (he did the cover, I did the reverse and labels – it came out nice).

Elsewhere, the Move 78 album is one for the end of year lists, Hieroglyphic Being – who has released about five or six albums in the last month alone – mutes the drums for a new series of ‘Re-selected Psybient Jazz Soundscapes’ which are quite revelatory in revealing the complexity of his compositions. I’d missed his ‘Dance Music 4 Bad People’ album on Smalltown Supersound but it’s one of his strongest of late, my suspicion being that his self-releases can suffer from a lack of quality control sometimes whereas music for other labels steps up a gear.

JG Thirlwell‘s third Xordox album is a synthesiser sci-fi epic and Kate Brooks unearths an album’s worth of outtakes from her Advisory Circle project. I’ve not included the new Stereolab album as that was in a previous list but it’s out now and every bit as good as you hoped it would be.

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The Tale of the Telepathic Fish – a new compilation, fanzine, mixtape and more

FDMTL4 Gatefold outside web
This has been a long time coming, I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a few years now and at last its time has come. I was approached by Doug Shipton of Finders Keepers / Fundamental Frequencies last year about doing a compilation based around the Telepathic Fish parties I co-founded in the early 90s with Chantal Passamonte (later Mira Calix), Mario Aguera and David Vallade. The four of us shared a house in East Dulwich between 1992-1995 when David and I were in our last year at Camberwell College of Art before leaving to make our way out into the world. What started as a house party grew into a series of ambient events called Telepathic Fish under the name Openmind, an alias I still use to this day for my design work.

FDMTL4 Gatefold inside Bandcamp web crop
Doug’s enthusiasm for the project got Mario, David and I back together (Chantal sadly passed away in 2022) to compile an album of tunes we’d all played and loved at the parties as well as digging in our respective archives for photos, artwork and memorabilia from the time. This was a pivotal era for all of us, a formative intersection before we split and went off in our various directions, and the people we met and partied with remain friends to this day. The double album – Telepathic Fish: Trawling the Early 90s Ambient Underground – includes music from the timeframe above by Caustic Window, Global Communication, Spacetime Continuum, No-Man, Tranquility Bass, Nightmares On Wax, Insides and remixes by The Irrestistible Force, The Orb and David Morley.

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It comes in a gatefold sleeve with a 20 page booklet that tells the full Telepathic Fish story and features Mixmaster Morris, Coldcut’s Matt Black, Aphex Twin, Orbital, the Leaf Label’s Tony Morley, the Ambient Soho shop, Megatripolis, The Roundhouse and a disused gas tanker in Amsterdam. All lavishly illustrated with loads of unseen photos and art.

TF booklet mock up web
Also available exclusively through Fundamental Frequencies will be a limited bundle that includes a 44 page zine, Mindfood #5 (we also made an ambient fanzine back in the day) that features material from the first 4 issues plus additional unseen ephemera plus a 60 minute mystery mixtape – ‘Float III’ – and an enamel badge of the Telepathic Fish logo too if that kind of thing floats your boat. Pre-order is up now for a release date of September 5th and we’re looking at the prospect of re-enacting the old Fish parties with some of the original participants and decor around that time for a launch party.

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Mindfood 5 mag cover 2 4:3 web 2
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Mindfood 5 inside mock up web
Fish enamel badge mock up 2 web
It seems things are coming full circle at the moment, what with me supporting The Orb the other weekend. Ambient music is where I first cut my teeth in London as a DJ and these parties were greatly influenced by Mixmaster Morris aka The Irrestistible Force. They were the springboard between college and a career in music and design, where I met Coldcut and in turn ended up jumping on board the Ninja Tune ship for the next three decades. Coinciding with the launch announcement today, Mixmaster Morris, Doug Shipton and I are playing tonight at the Tate Modern Corner bar in London, giving you a flavour of what to expect from the compilation.

Tate Corner Bar flyer

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0282 podcast – cheap digs

I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Moz from 0282 for his ‘Doings’ podcast, about finding cheap records, or the things I look for that are cheap anyway. One of life’s pleasures is looking for and discovering new music and I look almost every day.

There’s been a lot going on recently which is why there’s been few updates here. I did a couple of gigs supporting the Orb recently, have been designing a lot of stuff I can’t quite talk about yet and am currently framing a lot of my work for an exhibition next month in Folkestone, see details below. It’s followed by a gig in the same bar as the exhibition on June 14th so, if you’re in the area that weekend, come on down.

Openmind exhibition

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Buy Music Club May 2025

BMC May 2025
Another bumper selection this month – too much good music! From Richard Norris‘ triple CD psych compilation to Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto‘s short but sweet ‘Electric War’ LP to the biggest surprise of April – a new Stereolab album! For beats you have the new Move 78 album (in the green cover, top right), Paten Locke‘s posthumous ‘Dance On My Grave’ and the reactivated Bassbin Twins‘ ‘Beats Are King 3’ EP. I’m a new convert to goat(jp) and if the sound of Tortoise playing with military precision in the style of a Steve Reich composition is your bag then you might like them too.

310‘s classic prog cut up masterpiece ‘Prague Rock’ is on Bandcamp in a new edition and whilst trawling through the (In)Active Listener‘s comps I came across Scotland’s Nebyudelic Soundsystem with a sitar-drenched wig-out named ‘Down By The River’. Barely active over the years, there’s little else by him out there but there are treats on his Soundcloud page. King Gizzard have a new orchestra-led album coming up but for all your acid needs you could do worse than the L/F/D/M release on Don’t Recordings which twists things into new shapes. Also you may have noticed my own release nestling in there, a Quadraphon turntable acid jam under my Locked Loop Group alias which has taken well over a year to come to fruition due to general tardiness by myself. But here it is, an 8″ lathe cut zoetrope picture disc of two tracks in a die-cut sleeve from Acid Lathe in the US, it’s very limited, it’s not cheap but it’s what I and the label came up with as a release and it’s one of the best zoetropes I’ve done IMO. Pre-order is up as of today and if anyone in the UK wants to save a bit on shipping then contact me as I will be getting artist copies sent over soon and we can get a package together and sort out a deal with minimal postage.

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DJ Food presents Locked Loop Group – Acid Endless

AC2 on deck
Out today on the Acid Lathe label from Portland, Oregon – my Locked Loop Group alias over two sides of an 8″ zoetrope picture disc in a fold-over die-cut sleeve. ‘Acid Endless’ is a two part improvised turntable jam on my Quadraphon turntable using locked grooves to generate churning acid beats which were then edited down for this release. Chris from Acid Lathe approached me about doing something a couple of years back, when the idea of the label was just in his head and over time we worked out this release and I helped formulate the label look for him along the way. The cut on the disc is mono but the digital files are stereo so I’d advise you to download them for the full experience.

AC2 side A
AC2 side B
I’m really pleased with this release and can’t wait to see a physical copy as I only have these photos to go by at the moment. It’s limited, it’s expensive but it cost a fair bit to make and I’m not sure how many other double-sided zoetrope picture disc lathe cuts are out there? Also, postage is a mother these days so if anyone from the UK wants one and wants to save on postage then contact me and we can work something out when Chris sends my artist copies over, adding extras into the package which I can then send on to you for a more affordable price. Sadly it seems EU postage costs aren’t much different to US these days so this is just an offer for UK residents. Pre-order here, it’ll be released officially on the 12th of May I think but of course it’s Bandcamp Friday today so 100% of the revenue goes to the label/artist for 24 hours.

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AC2 inside front
AC2 inside back
AC2 back

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DJ Food – Oonops Drops mix for Brooklyn Radio

I did a little mix for the Oonops Drops show for Brooklyn Radio, and it airs today. All 45s, all vinyl, just some beat-heavy bits and pieces I’m digging at the moment and wanted to piece together. I’m finding myself drawn more and more back to the instrumental hip hop/trip hop sound, not in a retro way, many of these tracks are brand new and there’s a lot of it out there. I’ve never stopped loving this sound and it seems to be bubbling back into fashion of late. My mix starts at 40:35 min – 1:10:36 min after DJ Oonops, to be followed by mixes from Sola Rosa and DJ Friction.

Track list:
Shawn Lee – You Seem To have Forgotten What Music Was… (Idlesound)
Ticklish – Lost (Beat Machine Records)
Keina – True Love (Cheeba Cheeba Records)
Buggseed – Crystal Morning Pt.2 (Cheeba Cheeba Records)
Unknown – Glass (Drum Breaks Edits) (Solo 500)
The Psyclops Trees – Beak Street (Flying Saucer Records)
Herma Puma – Rockem Man (Cheeba Cheeba Records)
Herma Puma – Illery Summer (Cheeba Cheeba Records)
Time Signature – Brklyn (Slow) (dub plate)
Lord 69 – Fertilise The Corn (Howlin’)
Mike Bandoni – Kool Trippin’ (Village Live 45)
DJ Koco aka Shimokita – World’s Famous feat. 45trio
MagicTouch – Kyousoku 3 (Delic Records dub plate)

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Buy Music Club April 2025

BMC Apr 2025
An extended Buy Music Club Recommends this month as there’s so much great music out there.
From top to bottom, left to right – DJ Sofa – the next entry in the Swinging Flavors series from the Italian Beat Machine label on 7″, the new Clipping. album, ‘Dead Channel Sky’ – constantly evolving their unique template of rap music and Mike Paradinas‘ latest under his Kid Spatula alias, quality electronica from this UK legend. Yage remixes the ‘Translations’ album, itself a radical reworking of their classic ‘Papa New Guinea’, this is more in line with the Amorphous Androgynous and ladles on the sitars. Snapped Ankles – ‘Hard Time Furious Dancing’ – already contender for album of the year on the Leaf Label and then on the right, Sully with a two track club banger of a release on a beautifully etched 12″.
Tortoise have a new track out, preceding their next album, KiF pay homage to guess who with ‘Still Out’, up for pre-order on the Stroud’s Sound Records and Dylan Dylan delivers an EP of 90’s flavoured dance tracks on Pont Neuf. An oldie but new to me is Sir Psyche‘s ‘Bodies of Work 2011-2013’, a free download of properly psychedelic trip hop I recently discovered on a Bandcamp trawl and a recent cover design of mine adorns the first new Dan Curtin album in over a decade, ‘The 4 Lights’ on De:tuned. Last but not least, the long overdue re-issue of chill out classic ‘Dreamfish’ (by Dreamfish aka Pete Namlook and Mixmaster Morris) is here from Silent State Recordings.

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Snapped Ankles – Hard Times Furious Dancing


I’m really loving the new Snapped Ankles album, their fourth for The Leaf Label, ‘Hard Times Furious Dancing’, it’s refreshing and genuinely exciting whilst chiming with the times we live in. People ask where all the protest songs have gone, well here’s an album of them without ramming the point home and set to furiously fizzing beats and basslines. The video above is an imaginary conversation between seventies era Conny Plank and Brian Eno talking about AI.

Snapped Ankles LP
Available on LP, CD, download with different coloured vinyl variants for Dinked indie shops and Bandcamp. Grab it from Bandcamp to put more money in the band’s pockets. They are on tour but will make a loss so had to start a GoFundTrees Crowdfunder, this is the reslity for bands today in the UK.

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Electrik Collage show #13 Mar 2025

Show #13, a Baker’s Dozen is how I’m finishing this first run on ROVR Radio. There’s a lot of instrumental downtempo beats in this episode courtesy of the Legacy Echo label run by Chilla Ninja in Manchester, thanks for the records guys. More Monastry, a couple of old Linkwood tracks from the now defunt Firecracker label and a vintage megamix in the form of a 1987 Trax selection from a promo tape I found last summer. For some modern reconstructions of old classics check out Disco Police‘s stunning recreation of Tom Browne‘s ‘Funkin’ For Jamaica’, Magic Source‘s cover of ‘Voodoo Ray’ and my own deconstruction of Roy Ayers‘ ‘We Live In Brooklyn Baby’ – RIP Roy.

Listen back via the archive here

It’s been a year since I started this and this is my last show for ROVR for the moment. I will be carrying on under my own steam each month but the show will take on a slightly different form, I doubt it’ll be two hours each month for one thing. I loved being asked by ROVR to do a monthly show but when I signed up it was on the provision that it would be a test for a year. My main worry was the way the shows were constructed for the station which involves uploading the individual tracks directly to a back end area where you order your show selection, adding metadata etc. so that tracks can be indentified online once playing. Once the two hour limit has been filled you then choose an option that auto-blends the start and end points of the songs for a seamless transition, not beat matching, just fading. This was hit and miss for me and not the way I make mixes, being more of a mix DJ who layers tracks and samples up. I was assured that they were working on a DAW for this that would give DJs more control over how they blended tracks together, unfortunatley this hasn’t materialised after a year and I don’t feel I’m doing good work here as a result. I also had no way of knowing listening figures for either my shows or the station in general so I have no idea what sort of audience I was getting. But no bridges have been burnt, if the DAW materialises and works well then I may be back.

But, the year is up and I’m keen to construct things in my studio as I always have and hopefully provide listeners with a better show as a result, getting back to mixing, away from the digital playlist format whilst hopefully being more creative. I’ll upload to Mixcloud and that will allow listening figures and comments as well as a trackmarked playlist. It won’t be behind a paywall like the archive uploads I’ve been doing so everyone can listen and it will be easier to share and embed into websites after it’s published. The Electrik Collage shows have all been about getting back to doing radio with an empahsis on current music like Solid Steel used to be (I estimate at least 75% of each EC show is contemporary releases from the last year or so) but I also want to experiment with the format too. What that will entail I’m not sure but we’ll see next month, until then, enjoy the new show.

DJ Food – Electrik Collage #1
Linkwood Family – Piece of Mind
Monastry – Respite
Linkwood – Hear The Sun
Disco Police – Jamaica (Sir Dancealot Deconstructed Regroove)
Chop – Monolith
Magic Source – Voodoo Ray (Radio Edit)
Various Artists – Trax Megamix 1987
DJ Food – Electrik Collage #15
Deadchannel9000 – Concrete Science
2S.Beatz Productions – L.Y.W.B.
Kristian Gjerstad – Drops, Slops & Chops
Chop – Psycho Bubble
Chilla Ninja – Good Time All The Time
Atoribeats – Whoz Da Mann!?
Funkychild – Iguazu
Jon Fu – Revival
Champagne Dub – Thuggin
DJ Food – Electrik Collage #10
The In-Sect – Brooklyn (DJ Food Restructure)
Hot Chocolate – Sugar Daddy
Mandrake Handshake – Emonzaemon
The Psyclops Trees – Oscars Groove Part 2 (Alt. take)
Space Drum Meditation – Water Sirens
Djrum – Frekm pt. 2
Monastry – Destination
Kosmologic Research Society – Rift
D.K. – Untitled Pt.6

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Mick Jones’ Rock’n’Roll Public Library

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I visited Mick Jones‘ RRPL exhibition at the Farsight Gallery on Friday courtesy of Stephen Coates (seen above at the magazine kiosk inside the venue). For anyone who doesn’t know, Mick is a collector, an understatement when you realise that the amount of ephemera, memorabilia and esoteria on display is possibly only 5% of his archive. Although I can’t claim to be a huge Clash or B.A.D. fan there’s no denying that the collection on display is impressive and wide-ranging. From toys, games, comics, magazines, records, tapes, clothes to art, posters, projection equipment, videos, music gear and pop culture artifacts, it seems there is very little that Mick doesn’t collect.

Ft2 cover
Ft2 label
Primarily of interest to me were his pieces of hip hop ephemera including several by Futura from the early 80s when he and Mick wrote ‘The Escapes of Futura 2000’ with The Clash as backing band. Inside one of the glass cabinets I noticed Futura’s handwritten lyrics to the song, beautifully enscribed in his recognisable style. In another was a customised boombox with drawings by Dondi and Zephyr, a Rammellzee flyer and Beastie Boys tour pass – what a time to be in New York!

Futura lyrics
Futura boombox
Dondi
zephyr
Clash canvas
Of course there is loads of Clash-related memorabilia too, from equipment to tapes, toys to merchandise, press coverage to what appears to be a Futura-sprayed canvas.

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T shirt 1
mickey model
Clash toys
Clash case
Punk fanzine
Fanzines were a huge part of the punk movement and there are plenty here although most have been photocopied and pasted up as wallpaper at various points to aid ease of display.

fanzines
Ted vs Punks
flintstones
Forbidden planet
There are also a number of huge colour-themed collages of all manner of ephemera, an ingenious way to display many of the items that were found without an obvious home.

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And it goes on and on… there’s even the first in a projected series of magazines devoted to highlights from the collection on sale inside. I highly recommend you try and visit if you’re in the centre of London with an hour or two to spare. It’s free, open daily from midday – 7pm and the gallery is at the end of Denmark St. tucked round the corner by St. Giles church, nearest tube, Tottenham Court Road. Be quick though as it’s only on until March 16th – more info here www.rocknrollpl.com and on Instagram @rocknrollpl

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projectors
electric guitar
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Ampro
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Buy Music Club March

Buy Music Club Mar 2025
More fabulous music to wrap your ears around – the Legacy Echo label conduct a tribute to ATCQ‘s Midnight Marauders album and Magic Source magic up a disco version of ‘Voodoo Ray’ as Disco Police twist Tom Browne‘s ‘Funkin’ For Jamaica’ inside out for eight and a half minutes on their Crate Diggers album. Visioneers conjure up new version of tracks from the recent album and there’s a version of UFOrb sitting on Bandcamp from a source you wouldn’t expect. New music in the form of Space Drum Meditation, Syon Ward and Mandrake Handshake who come over like a kind of King Gizzard meets Stereolab in places. Jungle Boogie (JB) is my old friend Bunky K Brown improvising long bass meditations with percussionist bandmate Britt Walford.

My next ROVR radio show featuring some of these will air on Friday March 14th and the shows are available to listen back to now via the ROVR live app AND the desktop player (at last!) APPLE or ANDROID

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Electrik Collage show #12 Feb 2025


My latest radio show is streaming from 2pm today wherever you are in the world on ROVR radio. I’m constantly amazed at the amount of great new music that’s out there and this month features new tracks from Awkward, LF58, Create-A-Mess, Apta, the Cheeba Cheeba label and some great reworks by Disco Police. There’s a classic megamix in the form of Cuco‘s Disco Breaks re-edit of Martin Circus ‘Disco Circus’ and a little trio of versions of Malcolm McLaren‘s ‘World Famous’ classic, it’s quite beat-heavy this month and, dare I say it?, a little trip-hoppy in places (not a bad thing in my book).

Listen back here https://www.rovr.live/show/4699

Show #12 Feb 2025
DJ Food – Electrik Collage #7
Monastry – Origin
Type Raw, Alcynoos & Parental – Poetry
Create-A-Mess – Denmark Hill (DJ Food slight re-edit)
Dr.Doppler – Gardens in Spain
David Beast – Racial Riots
Awkward – The Shift
Monastry – In the Machine
Disco Police – Masterpiece (Bop Gun Slow Blow Mix)
E20 Trio – S950 Is a Verb
131 – I Cant Find My Way Home
DJ Food – Electrik Collage #44
Martin Circus – The Circus (Disco Breaks mix) (The Cuco re-edit remastered)
Disco Police – Caramel (Bop Gun Primordial DISKO Tech Mix)
Akufen – Play (Never Work Till Monday)
DJ Food – Electrik Collage #39
Chop – Oscillo
LF58 – Radials Part Two (excerpt 3)
Anne Dudley – Close (To The Edit) diverted with World’s Famous
DJ Koco – World’s Famous feat. 45trio
Malcolm McLaren – World’s Famous
Run DMC – Peter Piper (Brat mash-up DJ Food Re-edit)
Redman – Dont Wanna C Me Rich
Create-A-Mess – Fly Humans
Disco Police – God Make Me Funky (Bop Gun Cosmic Regroove)
DJ Food – Electrik Collage #18
Djrum – Frekm pt. 1
Chop – Rioflection
Lone Bison – Origin Story
Awkward – Last Fiend
ill-sugi – rah
Apta – Sink
Apta – Meniscus
LF58 – Radials Part Two (excerpt 4)

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Buy Music Club Feb 2025

Buy Music Club Feb 2025
After the longest month of the year we finally hit February, Bandcamp Friday is on the 7th so fill your baskets in readiness for that day when 100% of the profits go to the artists and labels. Hieroglypic Being has released three albums so far this past month, not a bad start for him and two from Inhmost feature in this list as they were a new discovery for me. Talking of older records I’d missed, the ‘Collage’ album by Monastry is a sample-filled trip hop winner from an Australian duo that dates from last summer, as does the (Mr) Chop album on Madlib Invasionz.

Anticipating the return of Little Barrie and Malcolm Catto‘s new album this April I was checking out the album Barrie had made with Shawn Lee under the name Ultrasonic Grand Prix last year – an intriguing mix of vintage guitars and drum machines. DJ Koco‘s take on the Malcolm McLaren classic, ‘World’s Famous’ was out late last year on a 45 and will endure all year whilst Jonny Cuba‘s first solo outing under the name Create-A-Mess is finally released after literally years in production limbo.

My next ROVR radio show featuring some of these will air on Friday Feb 14th and the shows are available to listen back to now via the ROVR live app AND the desktop player (at last!) APPLE or ANDROID

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5 hour set at Brvtvs in Marlow this Saturday

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This Saturday I will be playing at Brvtvs in Marlow, a hi-fi listening bar/restaurant. Not only that, support will be from my old partner in crime, DK!
We’ve not played together on the same bill for over a decade but I’m really looking forward to hearing what he pulls out for a mini Solid Steel reunion. I think you have to book a table if you want to come before 10pm so maybe contact them to check availability if you’re planning to travel far.

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Buy Music Club Recommends Jan 2025

BMC Jan 2025
And we don’t stop – Happy New Year! Here’s a bunch of music from the last month to get your teeth into for 2025. There’s a new Hieroglyphic Being album – one of his best for a while, an old Akufen I discovered recently through Bandcamp – absolutely stunning. The new Arcadia library compilation on Buried Treasure is full of treats as is the Kosmologic Research Society – the return of an old project featuring Markey Funk. Space is the place for that one, both inner and outer as is the latet LF58 album on Astral Industries who I’d slept on in recent years but hoovered up several titles from during their Xmas sale. For the beat heads look no further than a new album by Awkward which collects various beats and pieces together and the MagicTouch ‘Lessons’-style 45 on Delic Records, out this month. The new Special Request album wasn’t totally my bag if I’m honest except for the track ‘Don’t Hold Back’ which is dancefloor destruction and will get you from 140-160 bpm with ease during a set.

My next ROVR radio show featuring some of these will air on Friday Jan 17th and this year’s ten shows should be available to listen back to now via the ROVR live app APPLE or ANDROID

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Let’s have some psychedelia

Various Forbidden Love RCA 18S-11
It’s been a while and things have been piling up on the desktop so… above is a Japanese jazz album called, I believe, ‘Forbidden Love’, released on RCA in I’d guess the late 60s. It includes covers of The Beatles and The Mindbenders and the cover looks like either Victor Moscoso or Peter Max but maybe it’s a take off of that style that was so prevalent back then.
Below is a Muppets Electric Mayhem LP sleeve I discovered by Matt Taylor after seeing his poster for McCartney’s Got Back tour featured below.
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McCartney poster matt taylor
Below are three Portable Flower Factory 45 sleeves, a project from Bob Dorough with cover versions of popular songs for kids on the Scholastic label made between 1970-1972. The artist is uncredited but what fabulous sleeves.

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PFF 2
PFF 3
Below is an advert for a psychedelic light from a girl’s comic from 1970, love the “Invite BOYS to assemble Love Lites.. and stay for a come together Jam session” line. Below that a light show of the laser kind for a Beatles-themed run at the Laserium, probably around 1983.

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Laserium - Beatles poster-topaz-text-shapes-2x

SF Pop Fest poster by Carson-Morris
Carson Morris illustrated San Francisco International Pop Festival poster from October 1968.

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Love and Big Brother & The Holding Company poster with an early design by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley from 1966 (+ lights by Bill Ham!)

Yardbirds Doors poster
The Yardbirds / Doors gig at the Fillmore, 1967 by Bonnie MacLean with the original below

Yardbirds Doors original Bonnie MacLean

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Buy Music Club Recommends December 2024

BMC Dec 2024
Nearly the end of the year but no ‘best of’ round ups when we still have four weeks to go, that always appears at some point on Dec 31st on this site. Still a virtual avalanche of great music turning up out there, the Visioneers album being a good example of old tunes made new coupled with some new ones harking back to a golden age. The Virtual Dreams II compilation of 90s ambient music from Japan is quite otherworldly as is As One‘s new album on De:tuned (cover by yours truly, *cough*). Top left is abstract electronica by graffiti artist Soda, exclusively on cassette – think LP5-era Autechre and you’re in the ballpark. Middle image is the new Bakesale comp from Cheeba Cheeba Records, haven’t heard it all yet but they’re a great label and the release comes with a Dan Lish comic so it’s an instant buy. Bottom middle is the MagicTouch single I posted about before, up for pre-order and bottom right is Bsidewinsagain‘s tribute to Depth Charge and The Octagon Man – RIP J Saul Kane.

My latest ROVR radio show featuring some of these (including an exclusive edit I made of a DJ Prime Cuts track) was aired on Friday Nov 22nd and should be available to listen back to now via the ROVR live app APPLE or ANDROID

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Dust & Grooves Vol.2 is here!

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D&G spines
I’ve been waiting for this day for several years – Dust & Grooves delivery day! Having worked with Eilon Paz over the last few years on parts of this I know the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into just a small portion of it but nothing prepared me for seeing the final product last week at the launch night in London.

D&G Books 1+2
D&G 1+2 spines
The new book is HUGE, it weighs a ton and looks incredible. The attention to detail throughout is beautiful, with spot varnish and embossing on the slipcase of the deluxe edition plus printed insides and a free poster.

D&G box inside
D&G emboss
D&G poster
D&G slipcase inside
D&G varnish
The first volume has been re-covered and fits snugly with the second, make no mistake, this is a huge piece of work and will test the strength of any bookcase. I’m extremely proud to have contributed three extensive features to the back half of the book as well as several for the Dust & Grooves website (the Alex Paterson one is already up there with several yet to come that didn’t fit in the book). Interviews with Kid Koala, Andy Votel and Tom Ravenscroft fill pages alongside Eilon’s incredible photography and make this a must for all serious diggers out there.

D&G Koala
D&G Peel
D&G Peel 2
D&G Votel
D&G Zoe
We’ll never own all these records but we can share in the knowledge and stories behind them via this tome. As you could see from the photos of the launch party in London the other week, it bought together collectors from around the UK with nothing but goodwill and shared enthusiasm. Well done to Eilon and all the editors, designers and proofreaders who helped make this happen. Grab your own copy here

Portables cover
Let’s not the forget the Portables book that Eilon shot alongside the Dust & Grooves volume 2 one! The man’s a machine and this book lovingly catalogues 222 portable turntables – available now, here

Port 1
Port 2
Port 3
Port 4
Port 5
Portables back

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